Job Responsibilities & Requirements

The Master Planner II is responsible for optimizing the planning, scheduling, and availability of internally manufactured components across multiple production facilities. This role ensures production readiness by proactively managing demand, capacity, inventory, scheduling constraints, and manufacturing risks. The Master Planner II partners with Manufacturing, Engineering, Customer Service, Logistics, Procurement, and Materials teams to ensure material availability, support uninterrupted production, and drive operational performance. This position has company-wide responsibilities.

Responsibilities

• Develop and maintain weekly and medium-term production plans that align manufacturing capacity with customer demand and inventory targets
• Translate demand and customer requirements into executable production schedules across multiple facilities, production lines, and work centers using SAP S/4HANA MRP and planning tools.
• Coordinate the flow of customer orders through production to support committed delivery dates and customer service objectives.
• Partner with plant schedulers to establish detailed production schedules that optimize the use of available equipment, labor, materials, and other manufacturing resources.
• Monitor production performance and resolve issues that could negatively impact schedule adherence, inventory availability, or customer order fulfillment.
• Develop and maintain capacity plans by production line, work center, and facility to identify short- and long-term capacity requirements.
• Evaluate equipment, labor, and material capacity against projected demand and identify potential constraints, bottlenecks, and capacity gaps.
• Partner with Manufacturing Engineering and Operations to develop recommendations for additional capacity, including equipment, labor, shift patterns, or other operational changes.
• Continuously review planning rates, demonstrated production rates, and other capacity assumptions to ensure production plans accurately reflect manufacturing capabilities.
• Monitor raw material, work-in-process, and finished goods inventory levels to identify risks to production schedules and customer service.
• Maintain and periodically review planning parameters, including safety stock levels, inventory targets, production rates, lead times, and other planning inputs.
• Balance inventory investment with production efficiency and customer service requirements when developing production and capacity plans.
• Maintain and optimize MRP planning parameters, monitor exception messages, and partner with Master Data teams to ensure planning and material master data accuracy.
• Develop and maintain planning dashboards, reports, and key performance metrics, including inventory turns, service levels, forecast accuracy, schedule adherence, material availability, and supplier performance.
• Lead continuous improvement initiatives focused on planning effectiveness, inventory optimization, operational efficiency, and supply chain performance using SAP, Excel, Power BI, and other analytical tools.

Qualifications

• Bachelor's degree in Supply Chain Management, Operations Management, Business Administration, Industrial Engineering, or related field.
• Equivalent combination of education and experience accepted.
• 4+ years of progressive experience in production planning, master scheduling, supply chain planning, or materials management.
• Manufacturing experience in a multi-site environment preferred.
• CPIM, Lean, Six Sigma, or APICS/ASCM certification preferred.
• Experience with SAP required; experience with SAP S/4HANA MRP and related planning functionality preferred.
• Experience with Power BI, advanced Excel, or other supply chain analytics tools preferred.
• Strong understanding of production scheduling, MRP, capacity planning, and SIOP/S&OP processes.
• Experience leading inventory reduction, working capital improvement, or supply chain optimization initiatives.
• Experience developing planning, inventory, and performance dashboards.
• Strong collaboration, communication, and continuous improvement skills.

Additional Requirements

5–10% travel to manufacturing facilities to support planning standardization, capacity reviews, and operational improvement initiatives.

Physical Demands
This role is performed in an office environment where a computer, telephone and other office equipment are used as needed to perform the duties of the role.

MiTek Perks:

• Generous time off including Paid Time Off, 13 annual holidays, and volunteer time off

• Day One Medical/Rx, Dental and Vision Plans

• Family friendly benefits including Paid Caregiver Leave, Paid Parental Leave and Adoption Reimbursement

• Performance/Incentive bonuses 

• Career advancement, training opportunities, Employee Resource Groups, and tuition reimbursement

• Retirement programs including Matching 401(k) Contributions and Profit Sharing  

• Employer paid Short-Term Disability, Long-Term Disability and Life Insurance

• myFlexPay partner – allows you to track, manage and access your pay anytime

MiTek is a platform innovator and enabler that exists to transform the building industry with better building solutions. In 1955, MiTek transformed residential construction with the invention of the Gang-Nail plate and a digital platform that provided an affordable and scalable way to manufacture wood trusses. Today, MiTek delivers software, services, engineered products, and automated solutions that enable the building industry to improve efficiencies by optimizing the balance between off-site and on-site. With nearly 5,600 team members worldwide, MiTek collaborates across the building industry to enable and accelerate transformational breakthroughs in design and construction to transform the way the industry designs, makes, and builds. As a Berkshire Hathaway (NYSE: BRK-A, NYSE: BRK-B) company since 2001, MiTek has a record of continuous growth and innovation.

MiTek is an E-Verify and Drug and Tobacco-Free Workplace.

We are an equal opportunity employer; and all qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment without regard to race, color, creed, religion, national origin, ethnicity, physical or mental disability, sex (including pregnancy, sexual orientation, gender identity or expression, or transgender status), age (40 and over), genetic information (including family medical history), veteran status, or any other protected characteristic.

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